different between cervine vs rusine

English

Etymology

From Latin cerv?nus, from cervus (“deer”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s??v??n/

Adjective

cervine (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to a deer; deer-like.
   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 495:

     To which she replied sweetly, shaking that fine cervine head: ‘At any moment tell yourself that things are much better that they have any right to be.’

Anagrams

• evernic, revince

Italian

Adjective

cervine

1. feminine plural of cervino

Anagrams

• vernice, vincere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ker?u?i?.ne/, [k?r?u?i?n?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /t??er?vi.ne/, [t???r?vi?n?]

Adjective

cerv?ne

1. vocative masculine singular of cerv?nus

English

Etymology

Rusa +? -ine

Adjective

rusine (comparative more rusine, superlative most rusine)

1. (zoology) Of, like, or relating to, a deer of the genus Rusa.
2. (zoology, of an antler) Having the brow tine simple, and the beam forked at the tip.

Anagrams

• Ursine, insure, inures, nursie, urines, ursine